Wikileaks — Anonymous Whistle-Blowing

too_old_to_be_irate writes to tell us about a site that word got out on before they were ready. Wikileaks aims to be an anonymous and uncensorable repository of leaked documents, posted for commentary by interested parties. It's expected to go live in a month or two. From the site: "Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to those in the west who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their own governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact; this means our interface is identical to Wikipedia and usable by non-technical people. We have received over 1.1 million documents so far from dissident communities and anonymous sources."

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Re:Suck it, fascist AC

[drinkypoo]

Although I understand where you're coming from with this, and I strongly disagree with you being modded flamebait for it, the very fact that we can have this discussion shows that, although it's been curtailed somewhat and our freedoms are being steadily eroded, we do still posess the right to free speech, and those parts of the media that aren't owned by the financiers of our governments are still free, and I regularly read of abuses by the UK and US governments in the UK press.

We're allowed to say these things because we are not influential. No one outside of a handful of geeks cares what any of us say.